Grand Cafe de Turin
- March 29, 2006
- Rated 4 of 5 by
am331 from New Jersey, New Jersey
For lunch one day we decided to stop on the place Garibaldi, at the crowded and popular Grand Café de Turin, with its authentic 1900 interior, for seafood. The restaurant is packed with guests eating outside at the street-side tables, as well as inside, even though it was already after 2pm and the normal lunchtime rush.
We first tried to enter Petite Cafe de Turin, but they sent us away as they were too full. Two doors down was Grand Cafe de Turin! Even there, we had a 20-minute wait for a table to become available.
The menu is printed on the place mat, and is full of every imaginable type of fresh seafood. We didn’t know what to get so we asked the waiter for six oysters, four clams, and four large prawns. (Make sure you ask about prices, our prawns were 5 each!)
They first brought us our drinks (wine),and gave us each a plate with brown bread and butter.
They retrieve the fresh seafood from the carts filled with ice, located just outside the restaurant (this seems to be a common practice among seafood restaurants in Nice).
The seafood came with mayonnaise, which they like to eat with seafood, and lemons. Delicious!
Definitely try this place for fresh, high-quality seafood in a popular and authentic setting!
From journal Nice and the Cote d'Azur, Land of La Belle Epoque